Our team is divided on this and I wanted to get some third-party opinions. We are building an application and cannot decide if we want to use .Net WPF Desktop Application with a WCF server, or ASP.Net web app using jQuery. I thought I’d ask the question here, with some specs, and see what the … Read more
Background:
I’m working on a silverlight (1.0) application that dynamically builds a map of the United States with icons and text overlayed at specific locations. The map works great in the browser and now I need to get a static (printable and insertable into documents/powerpoints) copy of a displayed map.
I need to generate an image dynamically, and after I read the tutorial here I realize i can use all the controls and layouts from WPF to generate my rendering, and then save it as a JPG.
The idea is to use this instead of GDI+, which is quite primitive.
I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 app targeting .NET 4 that needs to be able to resize images on the fly and write them to the response.